Peter David and Mark Waid? What can I say? They are competent comic hacks. Better than most in the field, but hardly worth reading.

Morrison is occasionally interesting. I haven't read his JLA, so maybe it has some merit. If you explain to me what's good about it, I would consider checking it out.

Well, considering your opinion of David and Waid, I doubt I could convince you to read anything. Morrison revamped just about every major villain the JLA had faced and presented them in a new fashion for a new generation. But since you don't like unoriginal ideas, I doubt you'd like it.

[quote="The Superfly"]The DCU of the 1990sâ€¦Xtreme. Grim 'n gritty. The Dark Age. The period of comics in the 90's, while reviled by many, gave us some great characters. And we need to see â€˜em in DCUC!

Artemis - easy variant using the existing Artemis head and minor retooling.
ugh. the WW Artemis is fine for me, never liked her Requiem persona, and it was quietly dropped.

Arsenal - it's either this or that purple costume, so hideous I won't even post a pic.
THANK YOU!!! LOVE this costume, and don't forget the yellow vest outifit he had when he ran the Titans with Donna (Grant, Terra, Mirage, psycho Gar)

Asmodel - this would make an awesome C&C!
Agreed for CnC, but who else in that wave? Zauriel, Spectre, maybe NERON? Trickster?

Aztek - he was woefully underused and looks very cool.
Always thought Uno had a cool costume.

JLA hasn't been as good since it restarted in 97. Resurrection Man had an excellent & too short run. Aztek's unused potential.Zauriel's few appearances, and his mini Paradise Lost.The short-lived Chronos and Chase books.Connor Hawke trying to fill his Dad's shoes. Hooked Aquaman w/ his Army. Walter West, the Dark Flash. No Man's Land.Electric Supes (though he was best used in JLA)

And even those last 5-6 issues of Hal/Spectre.

Oh, those were my good ol' days. I haven't been reading so many good comics at once since. And probably never will again.

Agreed, there was some great stuff from the 90s. I hope we see some of these characters at SDCC.

During that time, I picked up some odds and ends such as the Batman/Wildcat and Nighthawk mini-series. Then George Perez returned to the Avengers, Grant Morrison relaunched the JLA, and I began reading James Robinson's Starman with issue #29. That series alone renewed my faith in comics. Once Robinson brought back the JSA, I was back in the game for another long stretch.

I started collecting Comic Books in the 90's and then started on action figures after that. I did not think that era was all that bad.

A lot of those characters were made by Kenner/Hasbro in the Total Justice and then JLA figure series and thatâ€™s the last we evr saw of those versions. It would be awesome to see some of them again in DCUC scale.

Total Justice

JLA

I donâ€™t want them all but I would get theseâ€¦

Artemis
Batman Azrael (put him in a 2 pack with a 1990â€™s all gray batsuit Batman)
Black Canary (although I like the fishnet stocking version better)
Huntress (any version, I like the newer one better)
Oracle (only 1 figure ever made by DCD)
Robin (Tim Drake)
Spoiler (and Spoiler as Robin too)
Superboy (At least the one with the jacket)

1) Bran Vs Whiteline: Ok, leaving my personal feelings out of this (for now), you both make valid points. Your both arguing different points, however. Whiteline, you are stating (I apologize if my assumption is incorrect) that 're-imagination' and 'inspired by' are two different things. Batman is inspired by pulp, Superman is inspired by mythology, Elvis by Berry, etc. All of this is true, and argument is simply over semantics. Bran is arguing that inspiration is irrelevant. He wants something new from already established characters. He would rather read Batman's first encounters with Joker, Superman's first bouts with Luthor, than their 100th. Again, this is a preference, and it's Bran's. Now for my two cents. Bran, why read the same book 100 times when you can read 100 new books? If the story is 'the same old thing', at least you have experienced it. You KNOW you have gained nothing, but what have you lost? Life is experience.

2) Were the 90's forgettable? Partially. How is that different than any other decade? It's not.

Itâ€™s funny that some people complained about the comic books of the 90â€™s but not on the action figures of the 90â€™s. Total Justice and JLA were typical of the hyper styled figures of the era. They only had about 5 POA and the arms and legs were bent in permanent positions so the figure could only strike one pose.

I love most of the Total Justice figures. That version of Black Lightning is still my favorite costume. And that line gave us maybe the only Zauriel we'll ever get.

You are probably right about that. Hasbro produced Zauriel in 1999, he was in the JLA line and released as both a single carded figure and part of the JLA The World's Greatest DC Comics Super Heroes Collection III box set along with Martian Manhunter, Superman and the set exclusives The Joker and Lex Luthor. Most of the JLA figures we reused from the Total Justice series (Kenner 96-97).

Itâ€™s funny that some people complained about the comic books of the 90â€™s but not on the action figures of the 90â€™s. Total Justice and JLA were typical of the hyper styled figures of the era. They only had about 5 POA and the arms and legs were bent in permanent positions so the figure could only strike one pose.

Make no mistake I love the JLA/Total Justice line. I have almost a full set of both carded and loose figures and I am looking to finally complete it.

The figures were so GODAWFUL they were great. MOst of them are posed in such a way that they look as if they are in pain. The majority of them will not stand up by conventional means, and the accessories that they came with were just awful.

But these figures were a product of their time. A time when everything was EXTREME! It is not these characters that I have a problem with, save for Parrallax/ Kyle Raynor the Emerald Toilet stroyline was what caused me to drop DC comics in the 90's.

It is the slew of other ungodly rejects that were mentioned. A good bit of these characters are better left forgotten. But unfortunately the children of the 90's who had no knowledge of what a good comic was will never let them die.